A Good Pair of Large Mid-19thC Terracotta Recumbent Lions c.1860 poa-item These amateur ‘surgeons’ would use

These amateur ‘surgeons’ would use pliers or forceps to extract the rotten tooth - without any anaesthetic to ease the agonising pain

The well-carved x-framed stool with turned stretcher with a naturally distressed black painted carcass having gilded highlights

And that is why it is still referred to as the 'gemstone of the rainbow'

A cholera epidemic hit the Eastover area in the late 1840s with 88 people buried in a remote part of the churchyard marked by a large stone

“Sweep and the Whitewasher”

A Good Pair of Large Mid-19thC Terracotta Recumbent Lions c.1860 poa-item These amateur ‘surgeons’ would useOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 Width: 15 Depth: 34 Height: 21 (all at extremities) In wonderful weathered condition, the opposing terracotta lions, generously sized and in the recumbent position, each beautifully and sharply modelled in the neoclassical style with vigilant expressions under richly carved manes and well articulated paws and tails, being stretched upon a rectangular plinth base and